Full_Name: Peter Dolan Version: 2.5.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (128.193.227.43) gregexpr does not find all matching substrings if the substrings overlap: > gregexpr("abab","ababab") [[1]] [1] 1 attr(,"match.length") [1] 4 It does work correctly in Version 2.3.1 under linux.